Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

JVM Programming Advent Calendar. Created by Eric Wastl, this is an advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. Good ol’ PerfPlanet is back for another season with all things speed and web performance. 24 Pull Requests.

Design 107

Design Development Programming Website 107

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

This can be changed later using the pg_checksums utility, but that will be a painful exercise on a big database. For example, the network port at which PostgreSQL listens cannot be changed at the individual database level. If, at all, there is any crash in between, I am OK to perform the ETL again. Type "help" for help.

Database 105

Database Servers Open Source Tuning 105

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

For my AWS re:Invent talk on BPF Performance Analysis at Netflix, I began with a demo of "BPF superpowers" (aka eBPF). My [BPF Performance Tools] book has plenty of examples. Starting with other interfaces is like writing your first Java program in [JVM bytecode]. strength: -46 strength: -46 strength: -45 strength: -45 [.]

C++ 52

C++ Education Java AWS 52

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

For my AWS re:Invent talk on BPF Performance Analysis at Netflix, I began with a demo of "BPF superpowers" (aka eBPF). My [BPF Performance Tools] book has plenty of examples. Starting with other interfaces is like writing your first Java program in [JVM bytecode]. bpftrace became even more powerful on Linux 5.3,

C++ 52

C++ Education Java AWS 52

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

At the start of November I was privileged to attend HPTS (the High Performance Transaction Systems) conference in Asilomar. On the last morning of the conference Daniel Bittman presented some of the work being done in the context of the Twizzler OS project to explore new programming models for NVM. The Twizzler programming model.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

"Appiness" is an illusion, an arbitrary line drawn to include programs built on some platforms but not others, and all of today's OSes allow multiple platforms to expose "real apps." In '07, safety implied an unacceptable performance hit on slow single-core devices with 128MiB of RAM.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Enabling students to build running performant versions of all of those systems in the time available is one challenge. In the core programming model, students provide implementations of Node subclasses which specify the behaviour of individual nodes in their distributed systems. Consider the lab exercise to implement Paxos.

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Large projects like browser engines also exercise governance through a hierarchy of "OWNER bits," which explicitly name engineers empowered to permit changes in a section of the codebase. Differences in uptake rates matter because it's only by updating a program on the user's devices that fixes can begin to protect users.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Titus is a multi-tenant system, allowing multiple teams and users to run workloads on the system, and ensuring they can all co-exist while still providing guarantees about security and performance. In addition to the default Docker namespaces (mount, network, UTS, IPC, and PID), we employ user namespaces for added layers of isolation.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

This incredible power is available for anyone to use in the usual pay-as-you-go model, removing the investment barrier that has kept many organizations from adopting GPUs for their workloads even though they knew there would be significant performance benefit. General Purpose GPU programming. From CPU to GPU.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136